ingemination

Updated: May 27, 2025

The preparation pregnant with the future, the remote correspondence, the questions, as it were, which to a deep musical sense are asked in one passage, and answered in another; the iteration and ingemination of a given effect, moving through subtile variations that sometimes disguise the theme, sometimes fitfully reveal it, sometimes throw it out tumultuously to the daylight, these and ten thousand forms of self-conflicting musical passion what room could they find, what opening, for utterance, in so limited a field as an air or song?"

Carl Van Vechten - The Merry-Go-Round